060120 Linux Java wrote: > I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular.
This gets asked regularly in one form or another & the proper answer is that Gentoo gives you a real choice, so who cares ? KDE got a bad reputation a few years ago, partly due to bloat & sloth & originally because Qt was not free software (hence others started Gnome). Neither of these is true anymore: the KDE devs have put a lot of work into consulting users & making their product quick & flexible. I was surprised to find that 3.5 shuts down in a few seconds despite my 10 desktops + similar number of running apps to remember & it restarts everything quickly enough at the start of the next session. One can & I do configure KDE to be simple & unobtrusive: the panel is hidden & has no app start-buttons & (of course) there are no desktop icons. I use the rather cute Apwal (in Portage) tied to the left mouse-button to get a pretty display of icons to start common apps, which means I don't need the KDE menu that much (it is easy to edit). It's best to install just those pkgs you need (eg I don't install Kmail). I used Xfce for a while, but its devs seemed to be reinventing the wheel, & Blackbox briefly, but it is only marginally maintained, & I do have Fluxbox installed in case KDE fails (it never has). I once looked at Gnome long ago, saw that it forced me to place its panel across the top of the screen (ugh!) & have never looked at it again ... -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [email protected] mailing list
